Probably because last year's court meeting was the first time, many details were not yet in time to be discussed, and at that time, the emperor died, the war in the northwest, and the court situation was far more fierce than today, so the first year of Zhengde was more calm than the eighteenth year of Hongzhi.

The vigorous emperor stood under the golden plaque, his eyes were imposing, confident and powerful, and he preached to his ministers:

"In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, I took the resumption of the set as the national policy, and determined to restore the old land in three or five years, and thank the people of the world for restoring the old land.

And I, thinking of the great order of the first emperor, want to follow the rule of Tang Yu, and those who speak are either mutually beneficial, or each is obsessed with its own fault, but the mother leans to the mother's side, and the mother party is biased. You and other ministers, strengthen their courage, and give them to rule. This so-called will of the Great Dynasty Meeting! ”

At the beginning of the Great Dynasty Meeting, the emperor had this opening remark, which means that I read the order of the first emperor and follow the example of Tang Yao, Yu Shun, and the benevolent politics of the country.

In fact, this is also the way of opening up the way that Wenchen often calls.

Therefore, the courtiers of the full palace once again shouted three times.

Zhu Houzhao came down the stairs, "In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu set up Shuofang and Wuyuan two counties, and the Heshuo area has been the territory of the Central Plains since then. The effort is less, but the military food is abundant. Therefore, Emperor Xiaowu and Guangwu built Shuofang, opened the West River, and placed the county, all for this reason. ”

Emperor Taizu of this dynasty was to drive out the Tartars, restore China and raise troops to attack the Yuan, Emperor Taizong five expeditions to Mobei, the north to chase the Yuan court, the ancestors of the emperor also entered the Jianzhou Jurchen, so there was a Chenghua plough court. For more than 100 years, the Ming Dynasty and the grassland have never ceased war, and I am determined to inherit the ancestor Yu Lie, and for the rest of my life, I will collect the land of the Hetao. Today's discussion, all the ministers can play, which is conducive to the resumption of the set of me, and is not conducive to the resumption of the set of I must be abandoned. ”

As the emperor, he will set the tone, and today is to discuss how to recover the Hetao.

But it was a matter for the ministers to discuss how to recover the Hetao.

In fact, in the final analysis, the repetition is a military operation, or a war against the Tatars.

Basically, from the current situation, this must have been an expedition, so it was completely different from the Battle of Hanamachi in the 18th year of Koji.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was no longer in its early years, and tens of thousands of troops entered the desert, which was not a trivial matter.

For Yang Yiqing, when he took this task back, there were only two requirements.

One is for people, and the other is for military quartermasters.

So at this point, the ministers began to use their brains.

Yang Tinghe said: "Ningxia Town is weak, so it is necessary to select the strong from each guard, reorganize it into two guards, and then give war horses and military funds, supplemented by reclamation and drills. ”

Li Dongyang believed that the imperial court should prepare more grain and grass, and for convenience, it could build a granary in the northwest according to the Jingtong warehouse.

The so-called Jingtong warehouse is built in the big granary of Jingshi and Tongzhou, the Chenghua Emperor also used these reserve grain to stabilize prices, Chenghua 22 years, Jingtong warehouse has 20 million stone of grain storage.

After arriving in Hongzhi, the expenditure became more and more complicated, and the grain storage in Jingtong gradually decreased, so far there was 13 million stone left, and Zhu Houzhao also ordered that attention should be paid to making the grain storage full and play a role when dealing with household affairs.

Wang Yu, the imperial court, suggested that the imperial court could appropriately expand the number of official horse farms, so that he could raise more war horses and reduce pressure, otherwise Yang Butang would always ask him for horses, which would also be a headache.

However, Ma Zheng spent a lot of money, and it was often hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Zhao Shen, the waiter of the Criminal Department, put forward a special point of view: he felt that there was a shortage of war horses, and it was certainly good to cultivate and accumulate more in the official horse farm, but it could restore the old system of 'Nama atonement' in the Chenghua period.

In the era of imperial power, there was no concept of the rule of law, and whatever the country needed, it could only do so.

Emperor Yongle was also short of grain in Beijing, so he stopped the opening of the world, and concentrated all in Beijing, so that all the salt merchants who paid grain had to send grain to Beijing, and all the granaries in Beijing were full for a while.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon chair, listening to Zhao Shen's method, and shook his head in his heart. How many more horses can you get from a few prisoners?

Sure enough, Lin Han, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, denied this method, saying that since this is the case, it is better to stop the gradual withdrawal of the people and herds for the time being, since there is a war in the country, and the people will suffer for two more years, presumably the people will be able to understand the court.

Tobe Shangshu Korean suggested: As I said earlier, the opening of the sea is for the sake of repetition. Now that the opening of the sea has been completed, the three cities have implemented the access system, and the access silver obtained is nearly 2 million, which can be allocated to Ma Zheng and the national policy respectively.

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All in all, above the Fengtian Palace, many courtiers began various discussions around how to reset. Some of these are good solutions, and some of them are just thrown away when they hear it.

And Zhu Houzhao heard that there were a few points, which he really hadn't thought of before, and the three stinkers were better than Zhuge Liang.

Among them, the military strategy was proposed by Wang Shouren, who suggested that elite soldiers should come and go like the wind, and first carry out the suppression. This matter was not his first creation, during the Chenghua period, and even in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Wang Yue's attack could be regarded as a successful suppression. The reason why it is easier to succeed is that nomads also have their own 'work and rest'.

This is a kind of military common sense, Wang Shouren fought with the Tatars, and must know it.

This common sense is that the nomads went south to the Central Plains, usually in autumn, while the Northern Expedition of the Central Plains Dynasty was usually in spring, just the opposite. Behind it is all determined by the mode of production.

First of all, look at the nomads, the reason why they often choose autumn is because the nomads are cold and not heat-tolerant, and the climate in the Guannai is relatively warm, and the nomads are not adapted. In autumn, the autumn is high and cool, the climate becomes cooler, even if the war drags on for a long time, the weather is getting colder and colder, the nomadic cavalry will fight more and more vigorously, at the same time, the Han army is not cold-tolerant, the more they fight, the more they suffer.

After the weather was cold again, the great river in the north froze, and the cavalry drove straight into it without hindrance.

Moreover, autumn is the harvest time for the farmers, and the Central Plains army is not easy to gather, which is also conducive to their battles.

The most critical factor is that they are short of supplies in winter, and if they don't rush to grab a wave in autumn, it will be difficult for women, children, and livestock to survive the winter.

For the farming people of the Central Plains, it is best to attack in spring, and the weather is gradually getting hotter, and the more you fight, the hotter it gets, we are not afraid. Second, spring is the breeding season for livestock, and in order to raise more cattle and sheep, nomads will try to scatter on the vast steppe to graze and raise broods. At this time, it is difficult for them to assemble an army in a short time, and the war will also affect the breeding of livestock.

In addition, the master's expedition requires a lot of grain and grass, and it also takes time to raise grain and grass, and winter is a slack season, so there is just time to organize people to transport grain and grass.

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The so-called suppression is to go deep into the desert at this time, kill people when they meet, and rob cattle and sheep when they encounter them.

The nomads robbed the people in the pass, causing the people to be miserable, and the Central Plains Dynasty robbed them once, which was also a heavy blow. Anyway, it's the Seven Wounds Fist, see who consumes who first.

Wang Shouren's final conclusion is quite reasonable, "Since the Ming Dynasty has spent national strength to prepare troops, how can it be regarded as a Tatar accumulation of military horses? If you don't suppress it, the sky will investigate it. ”

It's that you have this power, why don't you weaken them?

Yang Shangyi and Zhou Shangwen agreed with this suggestion, but they didn't expect a Wenchen to put forward such a view, because Wenchen always tended to prevent the army from attacking.

Suppressing the set also requires grain and grass.

Another suggestion was made by Song Heng, a Langzhong in Shaofu, who viewed the war from an economic point of view.

Song Heng is only a four-rank official, which is nothing on this occasion, but the court will allow officials of all sizes to speak, so he will also speak, he believes that the imperial court should gradually tighten trade with the Tatars, and further strictly control the sale of salt, iron, cloth and other materials to the Tatars on the basis of Datong Town. He believed that in the past, the military was not strong, and that such an approach would only allow the impatient Tatars to plunder.

However, as the imperial court continued to march north out of the desert, it actually had the strength to resist the Tatars. And wherever they enter the country, the officers and soldiers can respond.

On this basis, the laws of border trade should be specially surveyed for the sake of the state policy, and the merchants who still maintained trade with the Tatars should be severely punished.

It's a kind of blockade. It has also been done in Datong to a certain extent before, and the Ming Dynasty itself is forbidden to exchange markets with Tatars, but there is a lot of smuggling in private, and according to Song Heng's suggestion, the measures of the imperial court should be more resolute, and there should be the intensity of opening the sea.

In fact, it is not that the imperial court is not resolute, the trade war is a harm to both sides, because the people on both sides have a need for mutual markets.

But Zhu Houzhao thought about it carefully, in fact, the military harassment and economic blockade, in two or three years, the strength of the Tatars must have been greatly reduced, and at that time, the victory rate of the imperial court attack was also the highest.

But the economic blockade has a drawback, that is, the Tatar may not really survive, what if he can't survive? They can only go south to plunder.

In this way, the Ming-Mongolian war may take place this year. It's a little bit of a surprise.

And then again, what if you win?

This kind of war is an all-out pounce on the inferior, and if they don't succeed, basically most of that breath will be cut off.

Lunch at noon,

The emperor first revealed his meaning to several important ministers, "I thought that the matter of suppressing the trap could be implemented this year, Zhou Yanzhang has already gone north out of the desert, in the spring, the Mongols are grazing cattle and sheep, and the probability of quickly gathering troops to counterattack is small." However, the blockade is discussed, and I think it can be implemented after the crackdown next year. ”

Next year, the cavalry and border army of the Ming Dynasty will have further strengthened, and they can sit back and wait for the Tatars to counterattack.

Yang Yiqing also felt that it was so safe, "Weichen thinks it's very good." If there is a blockade this year, then the autumn Tatars will definitely go all out to take risks, which is not the best policy. ”

"One year of suppression, two years of blockade, and three years of repetition can be achieved." Yang Tinghe shouted: "On the first day of the Great Dynasty Meeting, there are two strategies to suppress and blockade, and it is worth it." ”

Zhou Shangwen can be used to suppress the set, but I don't know if the blockade can use that Song Heng. But Zhu Houzhao is not in a hurry, it is always next year, and it is okay to observe and observe.

In addition, he had another thing in mind.

The afternoon pilgrimage continues,

The emperor said to everyone: "Da Situ has already said that the city has nearly two million silver. I Chrysostom is open, and I have said that the sea needs to be opened, and the sea is opened. Since you have said it, you must speak for the sake of it. In the first year of Zhengde, the use of the palace should be reduced, and the redundant officials of the court should be withdrawn, but the military salary, grain and grass of the Ming soldiers could not be reduced. This year, the re-set must also be effective, so this silver tael, I will not move, and you Aiqing should not make up your mind. Yang Aiqing, I promise you here today that I will allocate 1 million taels of silver for the purchase of military horses, the operation of soldiers, and the preparation for war! ”

The ministers were amazed, such an amount was really amazing. The emperor is really willing to spend his blood for this matter.